Abstract
Abstract
Background
The purpose of this study was to look at the long-term effects of retinal phototoxicity after macular hole repair surgery using xenon endolight illumination and Brilliant blue G (BBG) dye.
Case presentation
An elderly man in his late seventies underwent para plana vitrectomy with BBG dye to repair an idiopathic full-thickness macular hole (MH) in his right eye. Prior to macular hole surgery, his visual acuity in the right eye was 6/60, N24 at the time of presentation. The MH closed with type 1 closure immediately after surgery, but there was extensive damage to the outer retinal layers and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) at the macula, resulting in a reduction in visual acuity to 2/60. We presumed that the combination of BBG and xenon light, is the probable reason of retinotoxicity in the current patient. There was a progressive increase in the area of retinal and RPE layer damage and choroidal thinning over a 4-year period.
Conclusion
Due to combined BBG-induced dye and endoilluminator toxicity, a rare case of continuously progressing RPE layer damage with choroidal thinning over a long follow-up interval was described. Such long-term effects of BBG and endolight induced retinotoxicity have not been reported in the literature, to the best of our knowledge.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Ophthalmology,General Medicine
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